Accessing the underlying file descriptor in fstream

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

| About a year ago I asked about if libstdc++ will provide a way to access
| the underlying file descriptor in the fstream class.

That question assumes that our libstdc++ IOStream facilities *should* be
FILE*-based, which we already debated in the past as not to be a
viable assumption.

-- Gaby
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